Sunny Days, Or: A Month at the Great Stowe |
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... adventure with our plate - basket . After crossing two or three meadows we came to an immense corn - field . The corn was standing high , and we were all delighted with it as it waved in the wind , especially Tita , who cried out ...
... adventure with our plate - basket . After crossing two or three meadows we came to an immense corn - field . The corn was standing high , and we were all delighted with it as it waved in the wind , especially Tita , who cried out ...
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... adventure as Syd . We all say he was cut out to be a sailor ; and he means to be one some day . Aunt Gommie saw that he could not do it ; and she looked puzzled , for once . There seemed no way out of it but for Syd to stay there till ...
... adventure as Syd . We all say he was cut out to be a sailor ; and he means to be one some day . Aunt Gommie saw that he could not do it ; and she looked puzzled , for once . There seemed no way out of it but for Syd to stay there till ...
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... adventures of the day . Our last adventure was , that , in going through one of the fields home , a young cow took it into its head to gallop after Minnie . It was only A MONTH AT THE GREAT STOWE . 53.
... adventures of the day . Our last adventure was , that , in going through one of the fields home , a young cow took it into its head to gallop after Minnie . It was only A MONTH AT THE GREAT STOWE . 53.
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... adventure which rather frightened us at the time , but which I believe he thought rather a good joke . He and I were fishing ; he on the bank , with his net , and I in the middle of the river . I must own that when I first fished I did ...
... adventure which rather frightened us at the time , but which I believe he thought rather a good joke . He and I were fishing ; he on the bank , with his net , and I in the middle of the river . I must own that when I first fished I did ...
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... adventure : He took off his shoes and stockings , and paddled in to get to a pool with his net , and all on a sudden he went plump down , out of sight , into the water . There was a hole in that place , which he had not seen . Oh , I ...
... adventure : He took off his shoes and stockings , and paddled in to get to a pool with his net , and all on a sudden he went plump down , out of sight , into the water . There was a hole in that place , which he had not seen . Oh , I ...
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Adventures asked Aunt Gommie Aunt Gommie says Author BARBARA HUTTON basket Bessie Beverley Blanche Brown calf called chignon Children climb cloaks cloth elegant cockchafers coloured cried Syd cupboard darling papa dear delightful dinner Dollabella door Engravings Fairy fancy farm-yard Fcap flowers Fourth Edition frightened Frontispiece GILBERT gilt edges Goat's Tor Gommie's happy HARRISON WEIR heard hedge History HOOD horrid Joan JOHN TIMBS jump kitchen knew LADY laughing Lessons look Lord Falconer lovely Mabel milk moor morning never Newfoundland Dog nurse ourselves papa and mamma Phiz plain Post 8vo Price 6d Rose round Roundheads Royal 16mo scramble screamed Second Edition sewed Small 4to Stories Stowe Super-royal 16mo Syd's tell thing Third Edition THOMAS DARNELL THOMAS HOOD thought Tita's Tom HOOD took tree WALTER CRANE waterfall whispered wonder wood Young
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